About Robert Trent Jones II, LLC

Despite our global reach, we remain a small family business. We choose our projects carefully – with one eye on our client’s goals, the other on the land itself. The goal is to deliver innovative designs in natural settings, creating challenges for golfers of all levels. Consistency counts: our reputation depends on delivering both value and vision.” — Bruce Charlton, President and Chief Design Officer While RTJ II has built our reputation by listening to the land, we also listen to our clients, whose thoughts and goals are an important priority. By employing not just innovative concepts such as “green building” but also using the newest techniques, technologies, and even legal guidelines, the team at RTJ II is dedicated to carrying our successful history of innovation into a future rich with new possibilities. At Robert Trent Jones II we approach every golf course project with a series of fundamental design principles that guide our work. The pillar of our design philosophy is that every project is site specific. We listen to the land and work with it to create the best golf design possible on every unique site. At Robert Trent Jones II we believe that the profession has entered a grand new era—the “green age”—in which great golf courses worldwide are being created in harmony with the environment and with the intention that they will be maintained as sustainable resources. In an era when global environmental concerns have taken center stage and the golf business is greatly affected by resource issues, the importance of one specific resource stands out: Water. Robert Trent Jones Jr. has been dedicated to environmental course design since long before green building became popular.  The firm’s Green Proclamation, a manifesto of environmental principles, calls upon all golf course architects to support this design philosophy. From its earliest origins golf has fostered community, bringing people together to enjoy both competition and camaraderie. We applaud the global efforts of golf organizations, associations, and governing bodies, and our golf architecture colleagues who promote public access to affordable, high quality, environmentally responsible golf. Design Philosophy We are committed to designing golf courses that appear to have been shaped by the same forces that created the surrounding landforms. Our courses feel natural even though we often exert enormous effort and skill to create them. Our design philosophy further holds that environmental sensitivity and responsibility are essential aspects of every project. At a number of sites in our portfolio we’ve actually remediated long-term environmental degradation by designing courses that repair and improve the environment. Our philosophy also calls for the creation of courses that combine playability for the average golfer with sufficient difficulty from championship tees to challenge the world’s best players. Providing alternative lines of play adds another crucial strategic component to our courses. These and other tenets of our design philosophy play an integral part in creating the distinctive, creative, and appropriate look of Robert Trent Jones II golf courses. OUR SERVICE NEW SITE DESIGN Creating order out of chaos As Michaelangelo supposedly said of his David: “I chipped away the stone that didn’t look like him!” So it is with golf course design: whittling away the extraneous, leaving the essential. Respecting what exists, then judiciously adding or subtracting that which enhances the design and playability of the future course. RENOVATION, REMODEL, REDESIGN What’s old is new again A golf course is a living entity, and like good wine can often age for the better. RTJ II’s design strategy also has changed with the times, embracing modern demands for sustainability and cost-effectiveness. Restoring venerable courses to their former glory might mean eliminating trees and vegetation, but all with an eye toward playability and water conservation. MASTER PLANNING Beyond bunkers and hazards: Seeing the big picture One key to successful development is the blending of all its major elements into a concise and well-balanced whole. Whether for a resort developer or municipal city planner RTJ II helps owners plot roads, waterways, utility corridors, housing or hotel sites, and other amenities to integrate with the golf course into an overall master plan. COURSE PURCHASE EVALUATIONS Hewing diamonds... It takes years of experience and more than just a bit of vision to see a finished golf routing on land formerly left to nature’s capricious ways. RTJ II doesn’t force-feed a course on land incompatible with budgetary and environmental constraints but will instead merge creativity with technology to achieve the correct design.